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Calf Competition

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Description: Competitors in the calf judging lining up with their animals at the Portage County fair.
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Children Playing on Seesaw

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Description: Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood.
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Horses Pulling Street Waterer

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Description: A man with two horses pulling a street waterer down a dirt road. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the...
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Five Horsemen

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Description: Five men ride horses and kick up a cloud of dust along a country road. A small homestead is in the background.
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Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison, from Park Street to the men's dormitories. Part of Lake Mendota is in the top right corner.
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Aerial View of Agricultural Buildings

Date: 1946
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on isthmus, including the Agricultural campus and men's dormitories. Part of Lake Mendota is in the top right corner...
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Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1946
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, looking south from Lake Mendota. Camp Randall stadium is in the upper right.
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Aerial View of Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on Shoreline

Date: 1947
Description: Aerial view of the Elizabeth Waters women's dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the upper right corner is Camp Randall. A long pier...
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Masonic Installation

Date: 09 16 1961
Description: Installation of Masonic officers at the Grand Council meeting. Assemblyman Christ Stauffer is second from the left.
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J.F. Meisser's Livery Stable

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Description: Men, wagons and horses in front of J.F. Meisser's Livery stable.
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Farm at Night

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of a farmer in an outbuilding at night.
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Hillside Home School Buildings

Date: 1906
Description: Rear elevation of the West Cottage Hillside Home School, the school run by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1902 Wrigh...
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Student Room at Hillside Home School

Date: 1906
Description: Interior of Cecil W. Smith's room at Hillside home school showing the bedroom area.
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Student Room at Hillside Home School

Date: 1906
Description: Interior of Cecil W. Smith's room at Hillside Home School showing his desk and work table.
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Knowles and Laird Parade Float

Date: 07 17 1966
Description: Parade float parked by the side of a road. It is advertising Republican candidates running for office. The portraits on the float are of Wisconsin Governor...
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National Guardsmen at the Depot

Date: 1885
Description: Group of Wisconsin National Guardmen standing on a platform, possibly at the Union Depot in Camp Douglas.
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School Picnic

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Students from the Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle, roast marshmallows over a fire at Barett's Hill (spelled Barrett's on the revers...
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Wisconsin River Scene

Date: 1933
Description: A view of the Wisconsin River captured by Gladys Hofseth, the teacher at Eagle Corners School, District No. 3, Township of Eagle. This scene is "not far fr...
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Loading Packs

Date: 1916
Description: Two of the men, in a field near Glidden, Wisconsin, loading their packs in preparation for the canoe trip. There is a house in the background.
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B Walks a Boom

Date: 08 1915
Description: B (William Norris) walking a boom in the water with Jack looking on from a canoe nearby. B is using a paddle to balance himself. This is in the Narrows bet...

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